DONALD TRUMP
2nd Amendment Stance: MIXED
District: National
Contest: For President (WIN)
Party: Republican

2016: 2nd Amendment Stance, Legislative Action and Voting History:
Pro 2A
2014: 2nd Amendment Stance, Legislative Action and Voting History:
Mixed

Additional Comments: Combined Score (Trump / Pence): MIXED + STRONG PRO 2A = PRO 2A

Mailing Address:
725 Fifth Ave., 5th Floor
New York, NY 10022
Phone Number: 646-736-1779

9/27/2016: "Trump Is Right About ‘Stop and Frisk’"
There is a huge issue about Trump's comments on Stop & Frisk. Well, he is not pushing for an unconstitutional action. It is ALREADY the law of the land.

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6/15/2016: Trump says he's meeting with NRA about gun laws after Orlando shooting
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6/13/2016: TRUMP: I 'absolutely wouldn't' ban assault rifles because 'people need protection'
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1/13/2016: Shoots Guns – His Response Is AWESOME!
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1/8/2016: Trump slams gun-free zones at Burlington event
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1/6/2016: On guns, Vermonters ‘feeling the bern’ for Trump
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1/3/2016: Trump: I will 'unsign' Obama executive action on gun control
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DICKERSON: "You don't think there's a worry, a tension, if you go too far, that you end up creating more terrorists?"
TRUMP: "What's too far? What's too far? They're killing people, whether it's what we just saw in California or in Paris. They're killing people, innocent people, people without guns."
"You look at Paris, no guns, nothing. You look at California, no guns. I can tell you one thing. If I'm in there and if I had a gun, I'm -- we're going down shooting. We're going to knock them out, OK, one way or the other."
"And if a couple of guns are in that room, you talk about Second Amendment, which I'm a big believer in the Second Amendment. In Paris, they had no guns. In California, they had no guns. Only the bad guys had the guns. So, they were like sitting ducks, every one of them."
DICKERSON: "Should the good guys get guns?"
TRUMP: "The good -- well, I mean, the good guys..."
DICKERSON: "Should people carry?"
TRUMP: "If they want to, they should be able to, because it's going to be lot safer."
"Look at what's going on. We're going into these gun-free areas. How about the school few months ago? Gun-free school, gun-free area, and you look at what happened. It was a disgrace. If people had guns, how about the -- how about the soldiers that were killed, six soldiers killed, champion marksmen on a military base? They're not allowed to carry their guns."
"And a whack job walks in and kills them. Not right. So, I am a believer in the Second Amendment. And, you know, the bottom line is, the bad guys are always going to have the guns. You better do something about it."
"Paris is one of the toughest cities in the world for guns, right? You can't get them. And you had carnage."

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2015: PROTECTING OUR SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHTS WILL MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN
Donald J. Trump on the Right to Keep and Bear Arms

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10/4/2015: Trump: Armed teachers could have stopped Oregon massacre
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10/03/15: Trump: I Have License to Carry and If Someone Attacks Me… Franklin, Tennessee Speech
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10/2/2015: Trump: Mental Illness, Not Guns, To Blame For America's Mass Shooting Problem
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9/19/2015: Donald Trump, New Gun Plan: Nationwide Concealed Carry, Remove Bans On All Guns, Fix Mental Health Problem
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9/19/2015: Trump pushes federal right to carry law
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8/27/2015: Trump on Virginia shooting: "This isn't a gun problem," the billionaire businessman said during an interview on CNN's "New Day." "This is a mental problem. It's not a question of the laws. It's really the people."
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8/27/2015: Donald Trump: Truth-teller or flip-flopper?
Stance on guns at 2:00

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2012 Presidential Candidates: Trump position on Gun Control
• Donald Trump generally opposes gun control.
• He thinks that every law abiding citizen should have a gun if they want to.
• Trump believes that assault weapons should be banned, “who needs them except criminals and police?”
• He wants a longer waiting period for hand guns, rifles and shotguns. We should be able to tell within 72 hours if a person has a record or mental issues that would prohibit ownership.

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Vote Smart's Research
•PBS "During a 2013 interview with Fox News, the real estate mogul defined himself as, "a very strong person on the Second Amendment." He believes guns are necessary for self-defense and has written that he generally opposes gun control. In his 2000 book, "The America We Deserve" Trump wrote that he supports a ban on assault weapons and a slightly longer waiting period to buy a gun."
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/donald-trump-believe-candidate-stands-10-issues/ (www.pbs.org)
•"I'm a big Second Amendment person. You have the constitutional right to bear arms."
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/trump-rallies-against-cuomo-new-york-gun-control (bigstory.ap.org)

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2000: From Donald's book: "It’s often argued that the American murder rate is high because guns are more available here than in other countries. After a tragedy like the massacre at Columbine High School, anyone could feel that it is too easy for Americans to get their hands on weapons. But nobody has a good solution. This is another issue where you see the extremes of the two existing major parties. Democrats want to confiscate all guns, which is a dumb idea because only the law-abiding citizens would turn in their guns and the bad guys would be the only ones left armed. The Republicans walk the NRA line and refuse even limited restrictions. I generally oppose gun control, but I support the ban on assault weapons and I also support a slightly longer waiting period to purchase a gun. With today’s Internet technology we should be able to tell within seventy-two hours if a potential gun owner has a record."
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6/15/2016: Trump says he's meeting with NRA about gun laws after Orlando shooting
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in October 1998, Trump ran through his then-current political positions with NBC's Stone Phillips:
PHILLIPS: Gun control? Where do you stand on that?
Mr. TRUMP: If you could tell me that the bad guys, the criminals, wouldn't have guns, I'd be a hundred percent for gun control. But the fact is, if you have gun control, the only people that are going to obey the laws, are going to be the good guys. So the bad guys are going to have the guns, the good guys aren't going to have the guns, and what good does that do us? So, I'm not in favor of it.

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